Sloth

In my searches for random words that I want to know how to say in French, I stumbled upon a particularly funny and somewhat tragic name for an animal: the sloth.

The word used in French for a sloth is "un parasseux."  Parrasuex, as an adjective, means "lazy." Therefore, the literal translation of sloth is "A Lazy."  It's not innately tired, slow, or sleepy.  It's just lazy.  Lazy as in, "I'm just gonna eat Cheetos off my stomach while I sit and watch TV instead of trying to enlighten myself" lazy.

"I don't feel like doing anything today."

I'm sure that, given the ability, one of these animals would go and do something amazing.  But according to the French, it just doesn't care.  Really classy.